40th_Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom
This is a list of members of Parliament elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1951 general election, held on 25 October 1951. A total of 625 MPs were elected.
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| 1951–1955 Parliament of the United Kingdom | |||||
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.jpg) Palace of Westminster in 1952 | |||||
| Overview | |||||
| Legislative body | Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||||
| Term | 26 October 1951 (1951-10-26) – 5 April 1955 (1955-04-05) | ||||
| Election | 1951 United Kingdom general election | ||||
| Government | Third Churchill ministry | ||||
| House of Commons | |||||
| Members | 625 | ||||
| Speaker | Douglas Clifton Brown William Morrison | ||||
| Leader | Harry Crookshank | ||||
| Prime Minister | Sir Winston Churchill | ||||
| Leader of the Opposition | Clement Attlee | ||||
| Third-party leader | Clement Davies | ||||
| House of Lords | |||||
| Lord Chancellor | Viscount Simonds Earl of Kilmuir | ||||
Notable newcomers to the House of Commons included Anthony Barber, Lord Lambton and Ted Short.
These representative diagrams show the composition of the parties in the 1951 general election.
Note: This is not the official seating plan of the House of Commons, which has five rows of benches on each side, with the government party to the right of the speaker and opposition parties to the left, but with room for only around two-thirds of MPs to sit at any one time.
| Affiliation | Members | |
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| Conservative Party* | 302 | |
| Labour Party | 295 | |
| National Liberal* | 19 | |
| Liberal Party | 6 | |
| Independent Nationalist | 2 | |
| Irish Labour | 1 | |
| Total | 625 | |
| Effective government majority | 16 (total strength) | |
- The National Liberals were in alliance with the Conservatives, bringing total Conservative strength to 321 seats.
This is a complete list of Members of Parliament elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1951 general election on 25 October 1951.
° Frank Collindridge, the sitting MP for Barnsley, died during the campaign. A special election took place on 8 November .
See the list of United Kingdom by-elections.
- Ewan, Elizabeth L.; Innes, Sue; Reynolds, Sian; Pipes, Rose (2007). Biographical Dictionary of ScottishWomen. Edinburgh University Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-7486-2660-1.